van Wassenaer
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van Wassenaer is a Dutch noble family name historically associated with prominent military and political figures in the Netherlands.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| van Wassenaer canonical | 5 |
| Van Wassenaer | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T10139867 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: van Wassenaer Context triple: [Jacob van Wassenaer Obdam, familyName, van Wassenaer]
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A.
Schoonhovense Veer
Schoonhovense Veer is a ferry crossing and locality on the Lek River in the Netherlands, known for connecting the town of Schoonhoven with the Krimpenerwaard region.
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B.
Boesinghe
Boesinghe is a village in West Flanders, Belgium, known for its proximity to key World War I battlefields along the Yser Front.
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C.
Schouten
Schouten is a Dutch surname borne by various notable figures, including politicians, academics, and athletes in the Netherlands.
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D.
Van der Madeweg
Van der Madeweg is a metro station in Amsterdam that serves as a stop on the city's rapid transit network.
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E.
Foort van Oosten
Foort van Oosten is a Dutch politician who serves as the mayor of the municipality of Nissewaard in the Netherlands.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: van Wassenaer Target entity description: van Wassenaer is a Dutch noble family name historically associated with prominent military and political figures in the Netherlands.
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A.
Schoonhovense Veer
Schoonhovense Veer is a ferry crossing and locality on the Lek River in the Netherlands, known for connecting the town of Schoonhoven with the Krimpenerwaard region.
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B.
Boesinghe
Boesinghe is a village in West Flanders, Belgium, known for its proximity to key World War I battlefields along the Yser Front.
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C.
Schouten
Schouten is a Dutch surname borne by various notable figures, including politicians, academics, and athletes in the Netherlands.
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D.
Van der Madeweg
Van der Madeweg is a metro station in Amsterdam that serves as a stop on the city's rapid transit network.
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E.
Foort van Oosten
Foort van Oosten is a Dutch politician who serves as the mayor of the municipality of Nissewaard in the Netherlands.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (43)
How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: van Wassenaer Description of subject: van Wassenaer is a Dutch noble family name historically associated with prominent military and political figures in the Netherlands.
Referenced by (6)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.